Laurence Buson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laurence Buson is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 6. Acquisition of syntactic variation: Production of interrogatives in French preschool children Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity, Rosseel, Laura and Eline Zenner (eds.), pp. 125–140 | Chapter
The interrogative is a variable with multiple forms in French, including yes/no and wh-questions, influenced by sociolinguistic factors. This chapter presents a study on the acquisition of interrogatives in French, based on two corpora of naturalistic language data collected in preschool through… read more
2017 Chapter 3. How do social networks influence children’s stylistic practices? Social mixing, macro/micro analysis and methodological questions Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation, De Vogelaer, Gunther and Matthias Katerbow (eds.), pp. 65–89 | Chapter
Studying children’s ability to construct themselves as pluristyle speakers goes hand-in-hand with studying their socialisation. Children’s conversational experiences are one of the key factors that allow them to integrate and participate in social life. This article will therefore present studies… read more
2009 French preadolescents’ perceptions of stylistic variation: A contrastive sociolinguistic study Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French, Beeching, Kate, Nigel Armstrong and Françoise Gadet (eds.), pp. 141–158 | Article
This paper presents the results of a contrastive study of the way that 196 preadolescents in Grenoble (France) view stylistic variation. Various types of data were collected at school in questionnaires, interviews, role-plays and recordings in everyday ordinary situations. The findings that will be… read more